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February 6, 2015

WORLD CANCER DAY!

My
inspiration today comes from all those souls who have survived cancer, which
once upon a time was considered a dreadful disease, and people were afraid even
to mention and bring this topic to speak about and discuss. It is still considered terminal illness, and
unfortunately cancer gets identified only in the last stages.I
feel privileged to encounter persons who have fought and bounced back fully
alive; and have become a source of motivation and inspiration for many, it’s a complete
turnover of what life was before they were contracted with cancer and what it
is now.

One
such lady whom I have met 6 months ago was referred for counseling, as she had
some issues with her daughter who was in college; interacting with her and
exploring reasons; she told me all her problem about how difficult it was to
deal with her daughter, who does not listen to her, and who is all the time
busy on phone, she seemed upset that being the only daughter, she seem to be
isolating from her for tiny issues , and how she is feeling helpless and
lonely; in the few more consecutive sessions her focus was only her daughter
and she seemed desperate to change her daughter.

Listening
for a few sessions and providing space for her to articulate and vent; I felt
it was time for her to shift her focus from her daughter to herself,
so I started enquiring about her own well being – she started sharing all her
struggles, married young, had lot of issues in her marital life, difficulties
in traditional joint family system, forced to take divorce, live with stigma
and discrimination as a divorcee, She had to chose to bring up her only
daughter single handedly, took up a job to fend for herself and after few
years, she was detected with cancer in the last stage; it was shocking for me
to hear that she had survived cancer of the lungs from 4th stage; at
the same time, I admired her
strength, courage and persistence to
fight back and take control of her life.

She
did not want to give up easily as her only ray of hope was her young daughter,
for whom she was ready to fight the battle and come out victorious, and she did
not stop there; she explored alternatives to prevent it from reoccurring, by changing
to Ayurveda medicines and continues to live a healthy life…… Suddenly I felt
compassion for this lady and began to understand her desperation to bring in changes
in her daughter’s life… so I encouraged her to love herself, to do all those
things that can make her happy, let go of the past, practice gratitude every
day, spread peace and I found improvement at every session and things started
improving, she stopped coming but kept in touch on phone; updating me regularly
as to how she is coping with whatever problems she is facing.

There
was another women who survived uterus cancer in the fourth stage, where in the
doctors gave her only a month to live; and she with determination fought and
went on to live for another 10 years of her life… what I found common in both
these women were that they did not give up but trusted themselves, trusted God and
made positive choices to keep themselves happy. There are many more persons
around us; who have fought cancer and have survived

Doctors
say that most of the time 80% of the healing is in the patients themselves;
with right attitude, positive thinking and practising forgiveness, gratitude
and taking good care of themselves, they are able to come out of the disease……
awareness is the key, let us spread awareness that cancer Is treatable, and a person
can come back to leading healthy life style..

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I am Genevive Angela, journeying with gratitude, evolving myself and finding my purpose of existence here on earth. ... am grateful for everything that happens in my life and I live a life of gratitude :)